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Rockefeller Gala Pops to feature Broadway show tunes, big band classics

Submitted Photo Fifteen Fredonia alumni who have gone on to considerable professional success return on Saturday, Sept. 21 for “The 50th Anniversary Gala Pops Concert,” which features Broadway show tunes, popular big band tunes and jazz standards.

Broadway show tunes and classic big band and jazz standards will be performed by a distinguished cast of alumni when Rockefeller Arts Center at the State University of New York at Fredonia presents “The 50th Anniversary Gala Pops Concert” on Saturday, Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in King Concert Hall.

As the oldest and original performing arts center in the entire Sate University of New York system, Rockefeller Arts Center celebrates a half-century of performances during the 2019-20 Lake Shore Savings Season.

For “The 50th Anniversary Gala Pops Concert,” 15 of Fredonia’s most accomplished alumni return to campus for a showcase of some of the most popular jazz standards and show tunes of all time.

The concert will feature music from “Wicked,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Les Miserables,” “Hello Dolly,” “La Cage Aux Folles,” “Guys and Dolls” and Off-Broadway hits “Avenue Q” and Andrew Lippa’s “The Wild Party.” Big band and jazz standards will include “Come Fly with Me,” “Mack the Knife,” “Fever,” “The Lady is a Tramp” and “How High the Moon.”

Many of the talented student singers who have graced the stages of Fredonia over the last 50 years have gone on to successful performing careers in Boston, Chicago, Nashville, Las Vegas, California and on Broadway — not to mention national tours that have taken them to virtually every state in the union.

The alumni artists who will be performing are Lance Bernard Bryant, Jennifer Cody, Brian De Lorenzo, Sandra Dudley, Lou Giovennetti, Devin Goffman, Marcus Goldhaber, Evan Harrington, Paul Marinaro, Anne Martinez, Paul Mockovak, Julie Newell, Craig Schulman, Alissa Stahler and Debbie Williams.

The concert is a DFT Communications Pops Series events sponsored by radio stations WDOE and 96 KIX Country in Dunkirk as part of the Lake Shore Savings Season.

Tickets are available through the Campus Ticket Office in the Williams Center, by phone at 673-3501 and online at fredonia.edu/tickets.

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